Facebook failed to reveal paedophile ring: Report

Last Updated: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 17:48

Australian police have alleged that Facebook failed repeatedly to reveal the activity of an international child pornography syndicate operating on the social networking site.

Russian paedophile case riles rights groups in Cambodia

Last Updated: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 13:38

A Russian businessman is accused of sexually abusing 17 children in Cambodia.

Jaycee Dugard: A year on

Last Updated: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 12:35

Jaycee Lee Dugard was allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years.

Australian priest jailed for `sadistic` child abuse

Last Updated: Friday, July 2, 2010, 14:32

The priest has been convicted of sexually abusing 25 boys between 1968-86.

`Paedophile priests will go to hell`

Last Updated: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 09:19

The Vatican prosecutor of clerical sex abuse has warned perpetrators.

Priest sex video on sale in Brazil

Last Updated: Friday, April 23, 2010, 09:13

A video of a priest receiving oral sex in a church from a former choir boy was being sold in the streets of Brazil on Thursday, in another stinging twist to the paedophile scandal enveloping the Catholic Church.

Vatican hailed bishop who shielded paedophile priest from police

Last Updated: Friday, April 16, 2010, 16:17

A controversy was brewing in France on Friday after publication of a letter in which a high Vatican official praised a French bishop for shielding a paedophile priest from police.

French bishops denounce child sex abuse, defend pope

Last Updated: Friday, March 26, 2010, 18:47

French Catholic bishops expressed "shame" on Friday over child sex abuse by priests but complained that paedophilia accusations are being used in a slanderous campaign to attack the pope.

Chargesheet filed against paedophile Dutch national

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 18:56

A Dutch national, arrested on charges of child sexual abuse and uploading child pornography after an Interpol alert, was on Wednesday chargesheeted in a court here.

Whereabouts of Australian paedophile not known

Last Updated: Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:28

The whereabouts of an Australian, who is accused of sexually abusing children and failed to turn up in a court last month, are not known, Visakhapatnam police said on Thursday.

One year jail term for paedophile Briton in Cambodia

Last Updated: Friday, December 25, 2009, 13:05

A Cambodian court on Friday sentenced a British man to one year in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.

Brazil busts Internet paedophile ring

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 09:20

Brazilian police Wednesday arrested seven people suspected of distributing child pornography to an international paedophile network on the Internet, local media reported.